Unlocking Pathways to Scale through Public-Private Partnerships

​Social enterprises play a critical role in developing and refining high-impact services for otherwise underserved communities, often introducing new innovations and disrupting existing systems. These changes often need to become embedded in the public systems they disrupted in order to sustain that impact over the long term. 

​​To support this leap from social innovator to public partner, some organizations have leveraged results-based payment mechanisms, hoping to chart a path to long-term public-private contracts. Such mechanisms can help public-private partnerships scale by making all costs visible, testing service specifications, and making results transparent. 

​​Join SmartStart, Fresh Life, Tiko, and Wecyclers, as they share learnings from their own public-private partnerships across sectors and geographies, at the sidelines of the Skoll World Forum. The conversation will unpack the tools they've used and the lessons they've learned in scaling those partnerships.